Horse-releaser.



E. KOSTA.

HORSE RELEASER.

APPLICATION FILED N0v.27. 1914.

1 ,140,5 16. Patented May 25, 1915.

2 SHEETSSHEET 1- THE NORRIS PETERS 60.. PHOTO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON D. C.

E KOSTA.

HORSE RELEASER.

APPLICATION FlLED-NOV.27. 1914.

Patented May 25, 1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

THE NORRIS PETERS co EMANUEL KOSTA, OF MONTICELLO, WISCONSIN.

HORS-E-RELEASER.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1915.

Application filed November 27, 1914. Serial No. 874,219.

v To all whom may concern Be it known that I, EMANUEL Kosra, a citizen of Germany, residing at Monticello, in the county of Green and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Releasers, of which the following is a specification.

This invent-ion relates to improvements in devices for releasing horses or other animals in times of emergency and its object is to produce a device of this class that is simple in construction, efiicient in operation and cheap to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described in the following specification, pointed out in the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form, a part of said specification and in which Figure 1 is a front view of my invention applied to the stalls of a stable. Fig. 2 is an end view. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing one stall and the barn wall in section. Fig. 4 is a seotion taken on line 44 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is an inverted plan view of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a section taken on line 77 of Fig. 2.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The reference numeral 1 designates the stable, 2 the stall walls and 3 the feed trough within the stalls. To the under side of the feed trough in each stall a pipe 4 is secured by clamps 5, the said pipe being formed of sections each of which is of a length equal to the width of the stall and each section is threaded for engagement with the threaded clamps 6 that support it. Within the pipe 5 a continuous one-piece pipe 7 is disposed and one end of the same, which is threaded, is projected through the end wall of the barn and provided with a hand wheel 8 by which it may be moved longitudinally. The pipe 7 throughout its threaded extremity is formed with a slot 9 into which a lug 10 of collar 11 is projected, said collar encircling the pipe against the outside wall of the barn and being spaced away from the wheel 8 by a washer 12. Rotation of the wheel 8 in one direction will move the pipe 7 outward; the pipe 7 may be returned when desired by exerting manual pressure upon its outward end the limit of movement of the pipe in an outward direction being attained when the lug 10 comes in contact with the pipe 7 at the end of the slot 9.

Referring again to the pipe 4 the same is formed within each stall with a slot 13, which is offset as at 14, which is in alinement with a slot 15 in the pipe 7, which is narrower than the slot 13 and which at one endfterminates in an enlarged opening 16 in alinement with a similar opening 17 in the pipe 4. A bolt 18 projects through the slots 13 and 15 and its head is normally disposed w1th1n the pipe 7 and said bolt carries a sliding bar 19 that normally extends through the ofi'set 14 in pipe 4 to retain the bolt 18 against movement longitudinally of the pipes. To move the bolt longitudinally of the pipes the bar 19 is manually moved out of engagement with the pipe 4 when the bolt may be moved along the slotted portions of the pipes into the openings 16, 17 when it may be withdrawn. To remove all of the bolts simultaneously the hand wheel 8 is rotated thus moving the pipe 7 longitudinally of the pipe 4 until the open portions 16 reach the bolts 18 and the heads of said bolts drop through the said openings. The slot 13 is of greater diameter than the head of the bolt. A ring 20 carried by bolt 18 is used to hitch an animal in the stall.

What is claimed is 1. The combination with a series of stalls, of a pipe extending therethrough and formed with a series of slots terminating in enlarged openings and in oflsets, an inner pipe formed with a plurality of slots registering with the slots of the first named pipe and of narrower formation than said slots and terminating at one extremity in enlarged openings, one end of said inner pipe being projected beyond the termination of the first named pipe and threaded and formed with a longitudinal slot, means terminally carried bysaid inner pipe for moving the same longitudinally of said first named pipe, means disposed about the threaded extremity of said inner pipe and projected through the slotted portion of that extremity whereby movement of said pipe with relation to the first named pipe is limited in one direction, bolts projected through the alined slotted portions of said pipes, the heads of said bolts being of greater diameter than the slots of said inner pipe but of less diameter than the slots of said first named pipe and means carried by i said bolts and disposed in the offset slotted portions of said first named pipe whereby movement longitudinally thereof by said bolts is arrested. I

2. The combination With a seriesxof stalls and of a stable Wall, of a pipe extending through said stalls andfo'rmed With a series of slots terminating in enlarged openings and in ofi'sets, an inner pipe movably dis- .posed insaid first named pipe and projected through the stable Wall and formed with a plurality of slots registering With the slots of the first named pipe and of narrower formation than said slots and terminating in enlarged openings the free .end of said inner pipe being threaded and formed with a longitudinal slot, means terminally carried 7 by said inner pipe for moving it longitudinally, a collar encircling said inner pipe and abutting said stable Wall, a lug formed integral with said collar and projected through the slotted portion of said inner pipe end, bolts projected through the alined slotted portions of said pipes, the heads of said bolts being of greater diameter than the slots of said inner pipe but of less diameter than the slots of said first ina'med pipe,

and bars slidably carried by said bolts and projected into the ofi'set slotted portions of said first named pipe whereby movement longitudinally thereof by said bolts .isarrested. V

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiixe'd my signature in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses. MA L KO-S A- Witnesses v :Fnnnmn BLUM, ROBERT BLUM.

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